St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-26
KENNEDY IN IRELAND.
Pleasant Chat With a WeII-Known
Minneapolitan.

pleasant home on the south side, the
other evening, recount his arrival and
stay of five weeks in the ''old DART
after nearly thirty years of absence in
this, the land of his adoption, wildly
recalled the popular verses (of which
the above quotation is a part Petroleum
V. Nasty wrote when told of the return
after long estrangement of an old but
enthusiastic IriShman to the green isle,
who, on seeing once more the cliffs of
Kerry loom up on the horizon, ex-
claimed: "Oh, Ireland, up from my
heart of hearts bid you the top of the
Hfornin'."
Edward Kennedy is one of the oldest
settlers and best known and respected
of the Irish race in Minneapolis, cOnse-
quently slight sketch of the recent
trip he undertook to the Emerald Isle
cannot fail to contain a good deal of in
terest about that distant but fondly
loved country, which has been the birth
place Of so many of Americas most
influential and respected citizens.
ever been called the Emerald Isle, from
the beauty of its grassy fields, he said
that here in Minnesota the grass had far
more of an emerald tint than i'm any
part of Ireland visited. The season has
been an extremely dry one, and the
crops are a total failure, even the potato
crop for which Erin is justly famous is
very poor one this year.
Landing at Queenstown, the beautiful
harbOr in County Cork, the counties of
Cork. Kerry, Limerick, Clare and Tip
perary were fully traverSed in the very
best manner. to see and study the con-
Haunting car" one of those pecul-
lar vehicles wittily described by
an Irish wag as carriage that had its
wheels inside, which will be at once APP
preciated by all who have ever seen an
Irish Jaunting car. The unfortunate
condition of Ireland was graphically eX-
pressed when he related the marked alb
Sence OF young men everywhere; all
one can see is old people and children;
the manhood-the flower of Ireland
have all to pass through the poignant
grief of bidding farewell to the land of
their birth, and going forth in search of
the busy towns of this great Union; to
the sheep farms of distant Australia;
and in fact to any land where kindly
hearts and willing hands are gladly well
coined in the new worlds, if not at
home.
1t was with very tender emotions Ed
ward Kennedy drew near to Nenagh in
Comfy Tipperary, the place where he
was born, and made himself known to
the older residents, who found it hard
to believe the prosperous, stout, grey
headed gentleman before them was the
same raw, uncultured lad who had
started twenty-seVen years before to
make his fortune in America, but when
he fully explained matters-that people
grow old in the StateS-aS we'll as else
where, and he really was Ed Kennedy,
they gave him royal welcome, such as
only Irish hearts can give. Nenagh is
the second important town in Upper
airy and bids fair to be the first, as it is
busy, lively borough. Old country
places do not change like towns in the
West. and he did not find it materially
altered. One thing, however, interested
him greatly, the Jail of his time long ago
is now used as the convent and school
of the Sisters of Mercy, and the chatter
| and prattle of innocent children fills the
corridors where once the sinful and
feloniOus were imprisoned. During his
visit the Bodyke evictiOnS took place.
1t will be remembered these wholesale
and outrageous driving of people from
their homes so stirred the heart of noble
Michael Davitt, that he made use of
language in his speeches at the time,
that nearly cost him his liberty again.
Apropos of all this Mr.. Kennedy rode in
train on trip he took from Limerick
to Ennis, with Capt. O'Callahan, the
BOdyke landlord in question, man
whom he describes as of sinister and
fOrbidding aspect, having the peculiarly
of one brown eye while the other was of
a very blue color. But hold, Mr.. Ken
nedy, may be it was a black eye he had
instead, lauded him from some gallant
land Lacquer for all his villainy to his
poor unfortunate tenants. A few DAYS
were spent in the capital, and Mr.. Ken
nedy is enthusiastic over all the famous
sights of ''dear, dirty Dublin''-espe-
cially was he delighted with Glasneyin
cemetery, and a memory to be cher
ished the rest of his days is the fact his
hand rested on the coffin of Daniel
O'Connell. Here also lies the remains
of the Manchester martyrs-Allan. Lar
kin and O'Brien-and the lately erected
monument to Rev. DR.. Cahill is i'm the
cemetery also. This prelate died in
Boston twenty-five years ago, but he
was taken and reburied short while
ago in Glasnevin, the same being one of
his last wishes. Killarney and Blarney
were not missed, and they were
crowded with tourists from all
over the world. The summer exodus
to Europe increases every year and on
difficult to procure a passage. AtLiver-
pool there were more than $4,000 peo-
pie waiting to come back to the states"
The condition of Ireland is reflection
of the state of government foisted on an
unfortunate and almost helpless pOpu-
lace, the people are miserable. rack
rented, and even the elements seem to
join in the general causes of the public
misery. A feeling of despair seems to
have settled over there and the fair, the
gay, the debonair Irish character of
many famous novelist is thing of the
past. A good deal of trust and solid
faith are placed in the Irish party in
parliament and in the great Gladstone,
but the sure and certain number of
years that must first intervene
dampens the expectancy, and recalls
bitterly the ''hope deferred that MAX
eth the heart sick" Taken altogether.
Mr.. Kennedy's trip was highly enjoya-
BILE, aside from the sad state of the land
of his birth, but he says he was mighty
glad on reaching New York to feel that
he was once more treading the land of
the greatest country ON earth; he was
once more within the dominion of the
most 3ust and beneficent constitution
ever promulgated by mankind.
His arrival here, the welcome at the
depot and at his house, vouchsafed him
by his fellow-citiZens, all this has been
recorded in the daily news of the GLOBE
and was a very happy ending to very
memorable five weeks spent in the ca
reer of Edward Kennedy.
TRoUsDELL.